Leaders of the Inexperienced Get together blasted each Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday after it was revealed that the Senate intelligence committee had requested info from Jill Stein, the get together’s presidential nominee.

Stein mentioned Tuesday she was cooperating with the panel’s probe into Russia’s meddling within the 2016 election.

Leaders of the nation’s greatest third get together focused Democrats and the media, saying they’ve launched a marketing campaign to smear Stein and the Inexperienced Get together by insinuating she colluded with Russia.

“The demand from Republicans on the Senate committee and the flood of tweets towards Dr. Stein from Democratic operatives reveals a patent try to discredit an alternate get together,” mentioned Inexperienced Get together secretary Jody Grage.

Stein acquired 1% of the vote nationwide final 12 months, however picked up tens of 1000’s of votes in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that intently matched the margins of victory that put President Trump within the White Home over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Many Clinton supporters blamed Stein for Trump’s win.

“In case you voted for Jill Stein you have been a part of a Russian intelligence operation. Otherwise you’re an fool. Or each,” tweeted Claude Taylor, a photographer who refers to himself as a “former Clinton staffer.”

The Senate investigation has largely centered on Russian interference within the presidential contest and whether or not President Trump’s marketing campaign colluded with anybody on the Kremlin.

Investigators requested campaign-related paperwork from Stein not too long ago and committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C) mentioned bluntly that he and his colleagues have been in search of “collusion with the Russians.”

Stein reportedly piqued the panel’s curiosity partly as a result of she attended a 2015 dinner sponsored by Russian tv community RT with President Vladimir Putin.

Stein was photographed with Trump’s ex-national safety adviser, Michael Flynn, and Putin on the similar desk throughout a December 2015 dinner in Moscow. Flynn pleaded responsible to mendacity to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officers earlier this month and is cooperating with particular counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.

Paperwork turned over to the Senate panel present that Stein “made the journey with the purpose of reaching a world viewers and Russian officers with a message of Center East peace, diplomacy and cooperation towards the pressing risk of local weather change, according to long-standing Inexperienced ideas and insurance policies,” she mentioned Tuesday.

Leaders with the get together mentioned the request from the Republican-dominated committee just isn’t proof of collusion.